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NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — Rex Ryan isn’t too pleased with Broadway Joe’s opinion that the Jets coach is making his team overconfident.

“I’m not going to change who I am because Joe Namath said something,” Ryan said Monday.

The Hall of Fame quarterback said in an interview that “it’s rather alarming” Ryan allows his players to think “they’re better than they are.” While he acknowledged that Ryan is doing “a great job” and cited the consecutive trips to the AFC championship game, he added that if the coach keeps telling his players how good they are, they might not prepare correctly.

“Namath can come in here, and if he can still throw, we’ll have him as a backup quarterback. But you know what? He doesn’t know our team. He’s on the outside,” said Ryan. “Even though he’s a Jet, and once you’re a Jet, you’re always a Jet, but he’s on the outside.”

Ryan said Namath, who led the franchise to its only Super Bowl title in 1969, would be “shocked” at how his team prepares.

“He’s not in these meetings,” said Ryan.

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